Class Note 1982
Issue
Nov - Dec 2016
Halloween is almost here again. Where did the summer go? My grandmother always used to say that time goes by more quickly the older you get. I would always respond, “That’s not true, Nanny. Time is constant.” But now I understand what she meant. Before we know it our 35th reunion will be here: June 14-17, 2018. Save the date!
Dan Gaulin works in the field of affordable housing, where he helps for-profit and nonprofit developers obtain subsidized development financing. In 2012 one of the deals that he worked on, Salem Towers in Malden, Massachusetts, won national recognition as the best senior housing project using federal housing tax credits. Dan and wife Nancy live in Framingham, Massachusetts. He writes: “We get a kick out of all the wildlife—deer, turkeys, coyotes, rabbits, hawks, song birds, bats. Yet we can walk to a Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Walgreens and Starbucks.”
Charlie “Chars” Crane works at Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC in New York City and splits his time between Manhattan and Maine with a goal to move to Maine full-time. Charlie got his M.B.A. from Tuck and always had an entrepreneurial nature. While at Dartmouth he and Ray Kelly owned and operated a business that sold stereo equipment and blank cassette tapes. Remember cassette tapes?
Bob Pattillo is also an entrepreneur and a world leader on microfinance. His Atlanta-based company Gray Matters Capital has invested more than $160 million in microfinance and education, mainly in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. “There isn’t a tradeoff between doing good and making money,” Bob says. He is a member of the 100 Percent Impact Network, a group of investors who have pledged their wealth to social or environmental impact. Gray Matters Capital has committed to providing 100 million women with an education by 2036.
Chris Marriott has moved from Connecticut back to Lake Forest, Illinois, where he grew up. “I had forgotten how lousy the weather was,” he writes. I was not sure if Chris was related to the hotel family, but he confirmed that he is not. His youngest son is at Vanderbilt.
Steve Becker is an ear, nose and throat doctor in Las Vegas. He and wife Sherri have a house in Oregon—in the western part of the Applegate Valley near Grants Pass. I think I see a mini-reunion opportunity in Oregon! Steve has already scaled back his work in Nevada so he can spend more time in the Beaver State. My husband and I had dinner with Steve when we were in Las Vegas last fall.
I am happy to report that Sandy Kelsey got married to Liz Verney in Hanover in August. Classmates in attendance included Peter Feer, David “Plek” Plekenpol, Brad Fanestil, Libbet Waterman McKeon, Cathy Judd-Stein, John Donahoe, John King, Peter Moran, Kathy Briscoe and Pete Folger.
I close with the sad news that Rob Maxwell died in July. A full obituary will be forthcoming—both on our class website and online at Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com
Dan Gaulin works in the field of affordable housing, where he helps for-profit and nonprofit developers obtain subsidized development financing. In 2012 one of the deals that he worked on, Salem Towers in Malden, Massachusetts, won national recognition as the best senior housing project using federal housing tax credits. Dan and wife Nancy live in Framingham, Massachusetts. He writes: “We get a kick out of all the wildlife—deer, turkeys, coyotes, rabbits, hawks, song birds, bats. Yet we can walk to a Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Walgreens and Starbucks.”
Charlie “Chars” Crane works at Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC in New York City and splits his time between Manhattan and Maine with a goal to move to Maine full-time. Charlie got his M.B.A. from Tuck and always had an entrepreneurial nature. While at Dartmouth he and Ray Kelly owned and operated a business that sold stereo equipment and blank cassette tapes. Remember cassette tapes?
Bob Pattillo is also an entrepreneur and a world leader on microfinance. His Atlanta-based company Gray Matters Capital has invested more than $160 million in microfinance and education, mainly in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. “There isn’t a tradeoff between doing good and making money,” Bob says. He is a member of the 100 Percent Impact Network, a group of investors who have pledged their wealth to social or environmental impact. Gray Matters Capital has committed to providing 100 million women with an education by 2036.
Chris Marriott has moved from Connecticut back to Lake Forest, Illinois, where he grew up. “I had forgotten how lousy the weather was,” he writes. I was not sure if Chris was related to the hotel family, but he confirmed that he is not. His youngest son is at Vanderbilt.
Steve Becker is an ear, nose and throat doctor in Las Vegas. He and wife Sherri have a house in Oregon—in the western part of the Applegate Valley near Grants Pass. I think I see a mini-reunion opportunity in Oregon! Steve has already scaled back his work in Nevada so he can spend more time in the Beaver State. My husband and I had dinner with Steve when we were in Las Vegas last fall.
I am happy to report that Sandy Kelsey got married to Liz Verney in Hanover in August. Classmates in attendance included Peter Feer, David “Plek” Plekenpol, Brad Fanestil, Libbet Waterman McKeon, Cathy Judd-Stein, John Donahoe, John King, Peter Moran, Kathy Briscoe and Pete Folger.
I close with the sad news that Rob Maxwell died in July. A full obituary will be forthcoming—both on our class website and online at Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
—David Eichman, 9004 Wonderland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046; dme4law@sbcglobal.net; Robin Shaffert, 5044 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016; robinshaffert@yahoo.com